The Funeral of Vittorio Emanuele.
维多利亚·爱马努爱列王的大葬
January, 17th.
一月17日。
Today, at two o'clock, as soon as we entered the schoolroom, the master called up Derossi, who went and took his place in front of the little table facing us, and began to recite, in his vibrating tones, gradually raising his limpid voice, and growing flushed in the face:--
今天午后二时，我们一进教室，先生就叫代洛西。代洛西立刻走上前去，立在小桌边，向着我们朗背那大葬纪念辞。开始背诵的时候，略微有点不大自然，到后来声音步步清楚，脸上充满着红晕。

"Four years ago, on this day, at this hour, there arrived in front of the Pantheon at Rome, the funeral car which bore the body of Vittorio Emanuele II., the first king of Italy, dead after a reign of twenty-nine years, during which the great Italian fatherland, broken up into seven states, and oppressed by strangers and by tyrants, had been brought back to life in one single state, free and independent; after a reign of twenty-nine years, which he had made illustrious and beneficent with his valor, with loyalty, with boldness amid perils, with wisdom amid triumphs, with constancy amid misfortunes. The funeral car arrived, laden with wreaths, after having traversed Rome under a rain of flowers, amid the silence of an immense and sorrowing multitude, which had assembled from every part of Italy; preceded by a legion of generals and by a throng of ministers and princes, followed by a retinue of crippled veterans, by a forest of banners, by the envoys of three hundred towns, by everything which represents the power and the glory of a people, it arrived before the august temple where the tomb awaited it. At that moment twelve cuirassiers removed the coffin from the car. At that moment Italy bade her last farewell to her dead king, to her old king whom she had loved so dearly, the last farewell to her soldier, to her father, to the twenty-nine most fortunate and most blessed years in her history.
“四年前今日的此刻，前国王维多利亚·爱马努爱列二世陛下的玉棺，正到罗马太庙正门。维多利亚·爱马努爱列二世陛下，功业实远胜于意大利开国请王，从来分裂为七小邦，为外敌侵略及暴君压制所苦的意大利，到了王的时代，才合为一统，确立了自由独立的基础。王治世二十九年，勇武绝伦，临危不惧，胜利不骄，困逆不馁，一意以发扬国威爱抚人民为务。当王的柜车在掷花如雨的罗马街市通过的时候，全意大利各部的无数群众，都集在路旁拜观大葬行列。枢车的前面有许多将军，有大臣，有皇族，有一队仪仗兵，有林也似的军旗，有从三百个都市来的代表，此外凡是可以代表一国的威力与光荣者，无不加入。大葬的行列到了崇严的太庙门口，十二个骑兵捧了玉棺入内，一瞬间，意大利全国就与这令人爱慕不尽的老王作最后的告别了，与二十九年来做了国父、做了将军、爱抚国家的前国王永远离别了！